(Health) - In the stage when baby is 0-6 months old, the games are not simply for entertain but it also help children learn and develop some essential skills. Therefore, it is very important for parents to choose the games which fit with physical condition and thinking ability of children.
1. From 0-1 months old
There is one common misunderstanding at that stage is that parents think 0-1 months children only know to eat and sleep. However, when children were born, they had some ability such as: hold, seeking for breast, listening... Therefore, it quite important for parents to help their children maintain and develop their ability by a simple game:
- Talk to your kids: By this game, your children could develop their ability of listening. Parents just only need to carry the baby, look directly in child’s eyes and talk with him/her. The baby will know the way to response to you by move their fingers or toes.
2. From 1-3 months old
At this stage, the baby will awake longer and feel interested in trying to talk. For that reasons, it is very important for parents to develop some new games to play with their children.
- Spending some time to take the babies out of home to make them feel familiar with new environment.
- Let babies hold things with different structure: soft, hard... in order to make them realize and complete the ability to hold.
- Talk with babies, repeat their words. Babies could learn to talk through action of parents.
- Playing with kids when bath, this will make your children feel interesting and learn more quickly.
- Encouraging kids to play with cube to help them uses their fingers more fluent.
3. From 3-5 months old
When kids turn to 3-5 months old, they could recognize familiar people and sights, they stay awake longer, less crying and most important, they could express their feeling and realize when they meet the new situations. There are some suitable games for kid at this stage:
- Discovering fingers through the songs: It will stimulate children’s brain, help them feel and use their finger better.
- Playing game “ Hello, here i am” with kids by using hands to cover your face, after that suddenly recover your arms back to your ears and say “Here i am” to make kids feel curious and help them develop the ability to stay focus.
- Playing game by distinguish shape, color of things to develop the ability of staying focus, distinguish.
4. From 5-6 months old
This stage is one of the most important stage in develop process of children. At that time, children could say longer sentences, sit without help from parents and use both hands to play with toys. Parents need to careful to play with kids at that time.
- Singing a song with a lot of simple detail and encourage babies to remember it. This game could help children develop their ability to stay focus, to remember....
In conclude, parents need to prepare carefully safe toys to plays with kids and remember one thing that do not force children to play when they are not ready. Hope this article could help you raise your kid better.
